UK - Pensions experts have dismissed chancellor Gordon Brown's decision to top up the Financial Assistance Scheme (FAS) to £8m in yesterdays budget as an admission of failure.
Announcing the UK budget for 2007/2008 yesterday, Brown said the amount of funding behind the FAS would increase from £2bn to £8bn. However, industry experts have viewed this as an admission of how...
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